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Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:33:05 -0000
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> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > >On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many people *recently* are
> > >>unaware of the setup program entirely.
> > >
> > >Hmm, I think we should add a new screen to setup.exe.
> > >
> > >After the install completes..
> > >
> > >"Your cygwin install is now ready to use.  Please run setup.exe again
> > >if you want to Install new packages, Remove installed packages, or
> > >Update your install with the latest versions of your installed
> > >packages."
> >
> > I like it.  Apparently it is extremely confusing to many people that
running
> > "setup.exe" again is how you update your system, Microsoft conventions
not
> > withstanding.
>
> So... hey, why is it called "setup"?  Isn't it, in the first place the
> "Cygwin Package Manager"?  "cpm"?  Even the suffix of the archive files
> could be cpm...

RedHat! RedHat!! RedHat!!!

Sorry ;-)


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk


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